by admin | Apr 11, 2007 | Politics / Govt
The tragedy of eleven deaths at a southwest Missouri residential home for the elderly and the mentally ill has prompted legislation requiring sprinkler systems at all long-term facilities. Long-term care facilities licensed by the state, such as nursing homes, would...
by admin | Mar 27, 2007 | Health / Medicine
The legislature is working to prevent another Anderson Guest House tragedy. What started out as a tougher elder abuse law took on an entirely new identify after the group home in Anderson burned last November and left 12 people dead. Now the proposal will require all...
by admin | Nov 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
Governor Blunt plans to tour the scene of one of the worst fire tragedies in Missouri history, the Anderson Guest House in which 10 residents died and 25 were injured in an overnight fire. The governor’s spokesman, Brian Hauswirth, says Blunt will be briefed by...
by admin | Oct 26, 2006 | Health / Medicine
A study of medication errors in nursing homes suggests they can be curtailed by talk and technology. Researchers under supervision of Professor Jill Scott-Cawiezell have watched 16-thousand medications being delivered in nursing homes and they’ve seen how good...
by admin | Oct 11, 2006 | Uncategorized
A big nursing home company and its former CEO admit they conspired to defraud Medicare and Medicaid to the tune of at least four-million dollars. The federal prosecutor for eastern Missouri, Catherine Hanaway, says the care provided by American Healthcare and its CEO...
